Carl Jung

Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, emphasizing the importance of the unconscious and archetypes.

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Born
July 26, 1875
Died
June 6, 1961
Quotes
822
Rank
#77

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"Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral purpose, that it warns, rebukes, comforts, foretells the future, etc. If one believes that the unconscious always knows best, one can easily be betrayed into leaving the dreams to take the necessary decisions, and is then disappointed when the dreams become more and more trivial and meaningless...The unconscious functions satisfactorily only when the conscious mind fufills its task to the very limit."

Dream Believe Decision
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"Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being."

Fun Creative Fantasy
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"Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern. Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

Life Love Is Shadow
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"It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also."

Men History Problem
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"Thank God I'm not a Jungian."

Thank God
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"Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest."

Religious Support Mind
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"The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require."

Self Psychics Psychology
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"There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world."

Jesus Reality Order
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"Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself."

Self Order Needs
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"When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something."

Fall Men House
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"A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour."

Men Way Blind
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"The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life."

Answers Limits Life Is
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"For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him."

Taken Order Individuality
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"It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul."

Book Soul Vision
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"People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress."

Adversity Thinking People
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"However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment."

Religious Passion People
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"It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return."

Real Essentials World
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"Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment."

Genius Moments Mankind
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"The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present."

Artist Conjuring Yearning
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"Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day."

Doubt Woe Sometimes
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